Davis Adams

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Davis

Adams

Navigation Engineer, Engineering Directorate, NASA Johnson Space Center

Davis Adams is a navigation engineer in the Aeroscience and Flight Mechanics division at NASA Johnson Space Center. Davis earned his PhD at Texas A&M University in the Department of Aerospace Engineering. His interests are in the fields of machine vision based navigation, optimal control, and emulation robotics and their applicability to autonomous space flight. He has extensive experience with algorithmic development and hardware-in-the-loop testing of novel sensing platforms for various spacecraft relative navigation applications and is currently the principal investigator of the Simulation, Emulation, Navigation, Sensors and STAR (SENSS) Lab at NASA JSC.

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Dragonfly EDL Phase Lead, NASA EDL Strategic Capability Leadership Team Lead (Acting), NASA Ames Research Center

Entry Systems Modeling (ESM) Principal Investigator, Dragonfly Aerothermal Lead & DrEAM Investigation Lead, VISTA Project Scientist, Aerothermodynamics Branch, NASA Ames Research Center

Tobias Niederwieser

Assistant Research Professor, BioServe Space Technologies / University of Colorado Boulder

Professor Emeritus, Klipsch School of Electrical & Computer Engineering, New Mexico State University, NASA Langley Research Center (Retired), IEEE Committee on Engineering Accreditation Activities

Alan B. Shepard Chair Professor, University of Cincinnati

Jeremiah McNatt

Principal Technologist for Power, NASA Space Technology Mission Directorate

Gergana Nestorova

Associate Professor of Biological Sciences, Louisiana Tech University

Instrument & Payload Systems Engineering Branch Head, NASA's GSFC

Christopher Birkinbine

Project Manager, NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center

Sr. Mission Manager, NASA's Technology Demonstration Missions (TDM)

Simulation Hardware Engineer, NASA's Armstrong Flight Research Center

Flight Systems Engineer, NASA's Ames Research Center

Project Engineer (SSTP), NASA's Ames Research Center

Space Technology Mission Directorate’s Small Satellite Technology & Flight Opportunities Program Portfolio Manager, NASA Headquarters

Retired Deputy Chief of Space Projects & Partnerships, Armstrong Flight Research Center

Spacecraft Systems Engineer, NASA's Flight Opportunities

SPLICE - Deputy Project Manager EG6 - Autonomous GNC, NASA's Johnson Space Center

Alicia Dwyer Cianciolo

Aerospace Engineer, NASA's Langley Research Center

Senior Technical Civil Servant, NASA

Alexander Van Dijk

Technologist, NASA's Flight Opportunities

Campaign Manager, NASA's Flight Opportunities